Deadline

Deadline (aka “The Scissor Game”) pits a two-player team against the evil faculty members who are trying to drown students in paperwork! Using a pair of huge wooden scissors, the players must cut all the falling papers before the characters on the screen are buried by work. The Playmotion game system tracks the IR lights on the scissor tips to track their position, angle and slicing motion.

After playing through three months and a December bonus round, with ever-snowier backgrounds and rising limits to how much homework can let slip past, you win and survive grad school! … Or, more likely, not.